 Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon...  Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery - Page xxby John Clare - 1820 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 428 pages
...wished much to possess it, ever since we read the surprise expressed by the great master of living song, that " excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons, does not contain a single new image of external nature." * In vain, however, did we inquire in the... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...write in verse, Thomson pledged himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from... | |
 | England - 1822 - 932 pages
...wings of fancy in the Midsummer-Night's Dream and the Tempest. " It is remarkable," says Wordsworth, " that excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons, does not contain a single new image of external nature, and scarcely presents a familiar one, from... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...himself to treat his subject as became a Poet. Now it is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two hj the Windsor Forest of Pope, and some delightful pictures...the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from... | |
 | Alexander Dyce - English poetry - 1825 - 472 pages
...remain unpublished. " It is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Po^e, and some delightful pictures in the Poems of Lady...the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature." — WORDSWORTH (Essay in hit Miscellaneous... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 412 pages
...excepting the nocturnal Reverie of Lady Winchelsea, and a passage or two in the Windsor Forest of Pope, the Poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...Sidmonton, in the county of Southampton. " It is remarkable," says Mr Wordsworth, as quoted by Mr Dyce, " that excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...publication of the ' Paradise Lost ' and the ' Seasons ' does not contain a single new image of external nature." — Essay in •his Miscellaneous Poems.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1832 - 792 pages
...works. " It is remarkable," he observes, " that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Fürest, of Pope, and some delightful pictures in the poems...publication of the Paradise Lost and The Seasons, does not contain a tingle new image of external nature." It is evident that the poem which we b»vf... | |
 | Scotland - 1837 - 898 pages
...at liydal Mount. Wordsworth has immortalized her in the following sentence : — " It is remarkable that, excepting a passage or two in the Windsor Forest...and some delightful pictures in the poems of Lady Winchelsca, the poetry of the period intervening between the publication of the Paradise Lost and the... | |
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